http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=10104/ur0611g/
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The Tor network is an intriguing concept: build a bunch of servers around the
Internet to route traffic through so that your connections can?t be traced. Why
would you want to do that? Well, for several reasons, like you don?t want your
web activity being traced by marketing people or spammers so they can come back
and get you later. The really cool thing about Tor is that it?s not a hosted
service; it?s a free toolset so that people can set up their own to help
support the project and share their bandwidth.
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